Fulling-mill



UNITED STATES PATENT EEIGE.

SIDNEY E. COLEMAN, OF VEST HAVEN, VERMONT.

FU'LLINGr-MILL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 2,126, dated June 11, 1841.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIDNEY E. COLEMAN, of lVest Haven, in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fulling-h/Iills, and vthat the following is a full and exact description of the same, which description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, composes my specification setting forth and exhibiting the principles of construction of my said invention, by which it-may be distinguished from others for a similar purpose, and such parts or combinations therein as I claim and for which I solicit an exclusive property to be secured to me for fourteen years by Letters Patent.

The fulling mills, that are now in use, are generally large and somewhat unwieldy, expensive, and liable frequently to get out of repair, from the peculiarity of their various constructions, and the design of my improvements is to introduce compactness, economy, and durability in the manufacture of these mills.

Figures l, 2, 3, of the accompanying plate of drawings represent my improved mill. Fig. l, is a plan; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section, Figs. 3 and 4 being elevations of the sides showing the machinery which works the moving parts of the mill..

a, o, a` Z) is the frame or box, which incloses the effective part of the machinery and the cloth, (prepared in any of the usual ways), during the process of fulling, and which likewise serves to keep or retain the heat engendered by the friction of the machinery and cloth, thereby materially assisting the operation. Two of the sides o Z) are movable or made to slide, for the convenience of getting at the parts, should the same be necessary, the other sides being stationary and confined together, by bolts and pins, as seen in the drawings, or in any other proper manner. Six or more plain or fluted rollers or cylinders C, d, c, f, g, 7L, are ar- 'anged in the interior of the box or casing, three on each side of the same, directly beneath each other. These rollers are all of the same diameter and have suitable bearings in the sides L a.

A roller fi, Figs. l, 2, 3, 4f, is placed near the bottom of the box and in the center between the two sets of rollers and like these latter has its bearings in the sides a, a.

The driving shaft 7c 7': is arranged as seen in the drawings having bearings in the blocks Z, Z, attached to the exterior of the framework. The several rollers are caused to revolve, in the direction indicated by the arrows, by means of two bands m m, m m, passing from the grooved pulleys n, n, on the ends of the driving shaft 7c 7c, to and around the several pulleys 0, 79, g, i, s, t, u, attached respectively to the ends of the rollers c, (Z, c, z', f, g, z', and arranged on the exterior of the sides of the casing as shown in Figs. 3 and 4f. The pulleys 0, 79., &c., are of different diameters bearing any proper proportions to each other, so that the rollers or cylinders to which they are firmly attached, may have different and proportionate motions, the roller c having the greatest velocity and the roller L the least. By giving these different velocities to the several rollers, the cloth which is laid in folds, in the usual manner, is caused to revolve continually and different parts of the surface of the same are from time to time, brought into contact with the surface of the rollers, which is a prominent desideratum in the process of fulling. The roller z', situated and arranged as before described and having a medium velocity between that of the rollers c and 7, assists in producing the above effect, and likewise prevents the cloth from passing` or slipping below the rollers, or away from the operation ofthe same.

In lieu of using the belts and pulleys, above described, the rollers may be driven with proportionate velocities, by means of cogged wheels on their ends, connected together and working with each other, or by means of toothed wheels of different diameters, and chain belts passing around the same, but as these are devices in mechanics that may be substituted, one for the other, at pleasure I have not represented them in the drawings.

Having thus described my improvements I shall claim as my invention- Fulling cloths by means of revolving` rollers or cylinders, (which may be plain or provenient I have hereto set my signature tinted), having' diferent and proportionate this twenty third day of April in the year motions, said cylinders being arranged in a. eighteen hundred and forty one.

box or casingv and operating` substantially as SIDNEY E. COLEMAN. herein above specied and described. IVitnesses:

In testimony that the foregoing is a true R. H. EDDY, description of iny said invention and im- EZRA LINCOLN, Jr. 

